Re: [libdv-dev] odd results with playdv --dump-frames and Xv

[Roman S. <rv...@su...>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:41:57PM -0800, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> Hi. I'm running with the libdv-0.103 version of playdv on FreeBSD 4.9
> and trying to convert a single frame from DV to PPM with the
> --dump-frames option. playdv -l 0 displays the image correctly, but Xv
> displays the ppm file produced with the --dump-frames option as 3
> offset monochrome copies of the image. Should Xv be able to view the
> results (it at least claims to support ppm)? I was hoping to use Xv to
> convert the ppm to something like a JPEG image. Thanks for any
> insights.

  It seems overly complicated -- try ffmpeg instead:
  
    $ ./ffmpeg -i test.dv test%d.jpg

  will convert all your DV frames into jpg images. Or you could choose
  any other format of your choice (gif, png, etc) just change the 
  extension.

Thanks,
Roman.